October 2025 This year had a consistent theme of friends moving to amazing places, creating great opportunities for me to visit (and go birding in new locations). This trip centered around the oceanside city of Kushiro, which to my excitement was home to red-crowned cranes, sika deer, and shima-enaga (long-tailed bushtits). After a brief layover in Sapporo, one of my first stops was the Kushiro Marsh, the largest marshland in Japan. Red-crowned crane! Driving north from Kushi

2025 was my first full year of birdwatching, and the year I began to appreciate all the birds, big and small, that live on Canada's west coast. I started photographing birds more seriously (which was much harder than I had initially thought, what with their twitching and flitting), and exploring different bird sanctuaries in every city I visited. This post highlights some memorable moments from the year, which are largely the moments that my camera was actually in focus. Grea

May 2025 There was no better way to celebrate finishing my Master's than riding through the UK by rail, looking for birds (and sheep) with my mom. In London, we walked from St. James Park to Kensington Palace. The waterfowl were out in full force, with mute swans patrolling the waterways and a variety of ducks and geese posing against the spring colours. Our next stop was Windsor Castle, where swifts flitted overhead as we weaved in and around the gardens and stonework. We wa

Jan-Feb 2025 Visiting Finnish Lapland at the start of 2025 was one of the most magical and memorable trips I've taken. Many friends and family questioned why I wanted to visit the arctic circle in the middle of winter, and I hope the following photos provide some convincing answers. A Lapland reindeer preparing for a sleigh ride through the snow Our first few days were spent in a tiny home in the woods, surrounded by snow, more snow, and the occasional reindeer. A perfect sno

January 2025 When one of your closest friends moves to Europe to start her MSc, the only option is to go visit. Portugal in January may not be the typical winter vacation, but the lack of crowds, sunny skies, and host of new birds made for an amazing trip. After a brief stop in Lisbon, we made our way to the island of Madeira, home to a wide variety of stunning hikes and beautiful views. Daily rain showers typically ended with rainbows reaching across the ocean and waterfalls

2022/24 The Big Island of Hawaii is home to remarkable marine life—from iconic megafauna like sea turtles, manta rays, tiger sharks, and dolphins to often-overlooked reef dwellers such as the bullethead blenny, hidden hermit crab, cushion sea star, and my personal favourite, the swallowtail headshield slug. The galleries below feature some of my favourite underwater photos from recent trips to the island, with a few burrowing birds and napping monk seals tucked in between. I

August 2024 A summer vacation in Newfoundland means long walks along the beach hunting for cool rocks and fossils, many geological lessons at Visitor centers which felt like checkpoints in a video game, and hours spent on the water hunting for seabirds, including my personal favourite: the Atlantic puffin. Atlantic puffin standing outside a burrow in Witless Bay Ecological Reserve We landed in the St. John's airport and immediately started driving to the western end of the is

Oct - Nov 2023 I travelled to the Galápagos Islands near the end of 2023 with two of my closest friends who also happen to be marine...

October 2023 Travelling north from Valparaiso to San Pedro de Atacama, sights were mostly enjoyed rather than captured on camera. That being said, a few national parks made the cut; and while I didn't consider myself a birder at the time, my camera seemed to make an appearance whenever the birds were around... Isla Cachagua hosts a large colony of endangered Humboldt penguins, which nest in burrows dug in guano. Around two thousand penguins call this island home, which they s

May - August 2023/24 I've been fortunate to live and work at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, which is situated on the traditional...